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When past trauma blocks present practice

I want to start a meditation practice but every time I try to sit I remember my mother forcing me to be still as punishment when I was little.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Historical associations can make beneficial practices feel dangerous to the nervous system's pattern recognition.

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